Perhaps the coolest Linux trick evah
Published by Greg May 25th, 2009Today, you can set up a Ubuntu based computer easily and have no more difficulties with installation and maintenance of your system than any arbitrary OS on any arbitrary set of hardware. But there was a time when Linux was harder and not for just anyone. For me, messing with a system that is a bit of an uphill battle is worth it if that system does certain magic. This is an example of this magic.
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5 Responses to “Perhaps the coolest Linux trick evah”
- 1 Pingback on May 25th, 2009 at 8:12 am
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Heh, he started typing aptitude — the CURSES-based (meaning, terminal-based) app — before realizing what he was doing, and typing synaptic instead to spawn another GUI app.
I have actually uninstalled X on my Linux servers, however I use this occasionally at home to access some GUI-only stuff on my desktop (which is in my office), from the living room via my laptop. I wouldn’t recommend you use this to publicly access apps at home from a remote connection, even if you enable compression, as you’d be way better off spawning a whole VNC connection where the compression is a hell of a lot better.
Remember, tunnel VNC through SSH as well, don’t just open port 5900 on your firewall, that’s damn insecure! SSH into your server, then use “vncviewer :1 -localhost” and it’ll redirect VNC to your local box — make sure you have both VNC Viewer and Server installed on your destination computer. You don’t even need to allow open connections to VNC on the target — as long as the target will accept VNC connections from localhost, and you can get into the target via SSH, then you’re golden.
There’s actually a minor problem with my above comment, which I elucidate on the post that just made that pingback. Plus that link has a few extra tricks involving port redirection over SSH.
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Great tip!
Great tip! Thank you.